In the second half of January 2016, RPX saw ten patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. At least one of those transactions involved a patent that has already been asserted in litigation against operating companies.

Since April 2015, a group of 11 NPEs managed by Nicolas J. Labbit have collectively filed over 250 patent infringement suits against operating companies. Each of the NPEs detailed in this report were incorporated in Texas in 2015 and launched their first and only litigation campaigns this year. Labbit appears to have formed a solo practice after working as an associate at Stevens Love, a small law firm in Longview, Texas that no longer exists. According to Texas State Bar records, Labbit graduated from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M University School of Law) in May 2010.

Yet another entity formed and managed by Texas attorney Nicolas J. Labbit has filed suit. Labbit formed Kinetic Trac, LLC on September 23, 2015 in Texas, and the new complaints assert a single patent (8,690,210) against a dozen companies that make and/or sell computer accessories, including Microsoft (2:15-cv-01853). The ‘210 patent generally relates to a computer casing with a handgrip.